Git Installation

Github Account Creation

Before proceeding further make sure that you have GitHub account. If you don’t have account then create one now on github.com. To avoid any confusion, for the time being don’t do anything more than creating your account.

First Time Setup Git in Windows

For the first time, you need to do certain configurations in Git. Hardly there is any need to modify them in future. User email, username and text editor are basic examples of configurations in Git. As you upgrade versions of Git, this configuration remains the same.

I) Checking the Git configuration

Before setting up any configuration, let us check default configurations provided after Git installation. In order to see those configurations execute below command:

$ git config --list

II) Setup Git user name and user email

User name and user email are first parameters to setup Git. This user information is used in Git commits. User email must be registered GitHub email. Below are the commands to setup Git user name and user email:

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